GATE ES · 2025 · ES
Question 51: Microbial metabolism
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Question 51
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Aerobic biomass has yield coefficient value of 0.4 for glucose (molecular weight = 180 g/mole) substrate. Bacteria is represented as
(molecular weight = 113 g/mole). Assume that no endogenous respiration occurs. The percentage of carbon going into
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2025ES
GATE ES 2025 · Paper 1
Environmental Science and Engineering · Original paper archive
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- Environmental Science and Engineering
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- Numerical answer (NAT)
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- 2 marks
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